Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis
Why women and blacks are more at risk of misdiagnosis than white men. But what to do?
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Rob Urie: The End of the World as We Know It
How world leaders and big money interests are resorting to increasingly desperate and destructive strategies to maintain their grip on power.
Read more...Young Activists Working for Change
Young activists are more prevalent and effective than our orthodoxy-enforcing media and pols would have you believe.
Read more...World Bank Enables Foreign Aid Theft
The World Bank encourages governments to reduce capital controls, draining precious foreign exchange and government resources.
Read more...You Could Have a Wealth Tax Raising a Few Billion or Major Reforms to Existing Taxes That Could Raise £100 Billion or More? Which Would You Prefer if You Wanted To Tackle Inequality?
Watching Davos is enough to make many buy pitchfork futures or push for a wealth tax. But there are better ways to skin fat cats.
Read more...Will Climate Engineering Really Save Us? Do Me a Favour
Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
Read more...Predators and Prey: Subverting Liberal and Populist Institutions
An anatomy of how one-time key progressive institutions like NPR were converted to the neoliberal cause.
Read more...As Presidential Hopefuls Spar on Social Security, Separating Fact from Fiction
Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension, explains the campaign of sneak attacks and misinformation against Social Security.
Read more...Links 1/17/2024
When Science Meets Power: A Review
A look at what Covid-19 revealed was wrong about science (or more accurately, “the science”, and what might be done.
Read more...China Is the World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower
Not surprisingly, China tallies as number one in manufacturing…..and that is before European deindustrialization has really gotten going.
Read more...The US, Israel Have Lost Battlefield Control – Houthis Have Attacked US Destroyer, Hit Greek-US Owned Bulker; Iran Has Hit US Base in Kurdish Capital, Erbil
The Houthi situation has developed not necessarily to the US’ and UK’s advantage.
Read more...The Brave New World of Employment Under AI……What About Countervailing Forces?
Why AI still has some growth pains coming.
Read more...Links 1/16/2024
Global Economy’s Momentous Shift and Monumental Inequality
An in-depth yet lively debunking by Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson of Panglossian depictions of the state of the US economy and society.
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